Thence away home and, foreseeing my being abroad two days, did sit up late making of letters ready against tomorrow, and other things, and so to bed, to be up betimes by the helpe of a Larum watch, which by chance I borrowed of my watchmaker to-day, while my owne is mending.
"Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright"
Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke
Do you wind me like a Larum, only to rouse my own stilled soul for your diversion?
"The Double-Dealer"
William Congreve
The spry rattle had run on in the same vein of mimicry but for some Larum in the antechamber.
"Ulysses"
James Joyce